Books updates for October 2026
Reading Challenge Progress
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ (26/50) 52%
Read in September

Updated ‘To be Read’ Shortlist
| ✅ | 📚 | The Dispossessed (Hainish Cycle #5) by Ursula K. le Guin, 309p, 8/10 |
| ✅ | 📚 | Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive #2.5) by Brandon Sanderson, 190p, 8/10 |
| ✅ | 📚 | Easy Go by John Lange (Michael Crichton), 262p, 7/10 |
| ✅ | 📚 | Shards of Earth (Final Architecture Trilogy #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky, 468p, 9/10 |
| 📖 | 🎧 | Hell World (Undying Mercenaries #25) by B. V. Larson |
| 🔲 | 📚 | Ghost Story (The Dresden Files #13) by Jim Butcher |
| 🔲 | 📚 | Blue World by Robert R. McCammon |
| 🔲 | 📚 | Digital Fortress by Dan Brown |
| 🔲 | 📚 | Zodiac by Neal Stephenson |
| 🔲 | 📚 | Consider Phlebas (The Culture #1) by Iain M. Banks |
| 🔲 | 📚 | Master of Life and Death by Robert Silverberg |
| 🔲 | 📚 | Count Zero (Sprawl Trilogy #2) by William Gibson |
| 🔲 | 📚 | Nophek Gloss (The Graven #1) by Essa Hansen |
| 🔲 | 📚 | Time and Again by Clifford D. Simak |
| 🔲 | 📚 | Annihilation (Star Wars: The Old Republic #4) by Drew Karpyshyn |
| 🔲 | 📚 | The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury |
| 🔲 | 📚 | Triplet by Timothy Zahn |
| 🔲 | 📚 | One by One by Freida McFadden |
| 🔲 | 📚 | Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds |
| 🔲 | 📚 | Stranger Suns by George Zebrowski |
| 🔲 | 📚 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter #7) by J. K. Rowling |
| 🔲 | 📚 | They Shall Have Stars (Cities in Flight #1) by James Blish |
| 🔲 | 🎧 | Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger |
| 🔲 | 🎧 | The Techborn (Rift Warrior #1) by B. V. Larson |
| 🔲 | 🎧 | From a Buick 8 by Stephen King |
Halloween short list:
| 📖 | 📚 | The Shining by Stephen King |
| 🔲 | 📚 | The Girl Who Cried Monster (Goosebumps #8) by R. L. Stine |
| 🔲 | 📚 | Missing (Fear Street #4) by R. L. Stine |
| 🔲 | 📚 | I Found Christmas Lights Slithering Up My Street by Ben Farthing |
| 🔲 | 📚 | The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix |